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Meanings of back terrapin in English
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Usage of back terrapin in English
1
Visit to Will Barbee's diamond- back terrapin farm on the Isle of Hope.
2
The oysters, fresh, fat, luscious, were followed by diamond- back terrapin stew as a soup.
3
Some diamond- back terrapin are supplied for the Baltimore market from North Carolina, but these, my marketman assured me, are inferior to those of Chesapeake Bay.
4
All of these, with oysters, soft crabs, and diamond- backed terrapin, offer tempting dishes to the epicure.
5
"Yes," said bookworm Owen, "that's the way it was with diamond- back terrapin.
6
It's more credit to a man to drive his vessel like a sailor, than to be crawling and bobbing along like a diamond- backed terrapin.'
7
The New Yorker, February 3, 1934 P. 14 Mr. Roosevelt's diamond back terrapins worth a hundred dollars apiece made into soup.